USAA Real Estate and its development partner, Seefried Industrial Properties, have announced they are near completion of an industrial warehouse development in Dallas–Fort Worth that will be among the first ever using sustainable building materials that will reduce the carbon impact of its construction by more than 45 percent, or the equivalent of a single car's emissions over more than 2 million miles of travel.
The warehouse in Southfield Park 35, located just south of I-20 near Danieldale and Old Hickory Road in south Dallas County, has been constructed with cross-laminated timber (CLT), a precision-designed wood product that replaces the concrete tilt-wall panels of a typical industrial warehouse. Conventional construction methods are predicated on the use of concrete, which produces 8 percent of global carbon emissions annually. By relying on this wood product rather than steel and concrete, the carbon-intensive construction process is mitigated almost by half. Each CL